The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-09

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sick. 80 Fred Blanchard has gone to
| White River junction. - Mrs. George
w. Durkee and Mrs. II. r. Hayward with
other members of Whitney Relief Corps,
organized a corps at South Royalton Satur-
day. - Lizzie Hayward is visiting her
brother in Northfeld
wilIiamstown.
ALBERT II. MARTIN seems to be sharing
| in the improvement of business here. He
has recently taken a helper in his black
smithng. 60 Frank Barnes one of our
worthy young men, has gone to work in the
| hardware store of Messrs. Fuller x Son of
| Montpelier. - George Beckett has sold
| to the Central Vermont Railroad Company
the right to take water from the stream run
| ming through pasture near the old Lyman
Capron place. The company will take it to
! the depot grounds We hear that the con-
sderation was 5000. - In addition to
the new road wanted by the residents of the
Judge Paine neighborhood Ga shorter cut to
the village via the Chauncey Lougee and
! George Savory places) better road to the
! quarres is Indispensable. We learn that
petitions have been, or are to be, presented
| for both these roads. 60 Mrs. DIR. w. b.
Mayo of Mortified visited friends here last
week. 60 Miss Matte Watson, daughter
of the late George II. Watson, is in town
| for the winter. She was at the Profile
House, White Mountains, nineteen weeks
this season. - Miss Luna o. Hebard of
Randolph, a sister of Mrs. Andrew Burn
| ham, is to teach the winter term of school
in the David Gale district. 60 Cyrus
Marston of Stowe has been visiting the
family of Norman Davenport. He goes
from here to Chelsea and Tunbridge. -
"Gus" Cleveland, the horse-tamer, has
taken Mrs. Joseph Norris place for the
coming year. - Charles Hayward, son
of Leavitt Hayward, has moved his family
to his fathers place. - George w.
| Abbott has hired house at the Depot Viii
lage in Mortified and is about to move into
it. - We had the pleasure of meeting
our old townsman, Charles Graves, in Barre
last week. At present he is a resident of
Northteld. For some twelve years he
was a travelling man for Rice, the scotsman.
Two years ago, while on the road, he re-
tired one night at Worcester, Mass, feel
ing remarkably well, to awake the next
morning with paralysis of one side. Since
then he has had to give up work. Though
| three mile-stones short of the sixtieth, the
fact that both his father and mother had
paralysis may account, in part at least for
! his having it. Mr.. Graves has two children
a Mrs. Clogston of our place, and a son,
thirty years of age, who is a physician
in Dakota. Hrs sister, Mrs. Caroline
Graves Adams, also resident of North
field, is the only other remaining mem
Der of this family, Alonzo Graves hav-
ing been caught in the machinery of
mill in Lowell, Mass, and instantly
killed some years ago. - BY the way,
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tire from here to Mortified? We have
heard the place spoken of as the Saints
Rest" but it doesn't seem as if people here
need to be (as Josiah Aliens wife would
say tuckered ~ enough to demand that
yet. - Rev Loren BiXby and daughter
of Dakota have been of late with Mr..
Bxby's old friends in the Jacob Flint dis
trict. - Henry Stewart and wife (nee
Fannie MARTINI, Lucius S. Simons and Les
lie Gale availed themselves of excursion
go 1..t v,glr Ia,
service at the w. u. Pratt school-house in
the quarry district last Sunday afternoon
was well attended and interesting. Rev.
F. w. Hambln will conduct service at
the same place next Sunday at three O'Clock
p. NJ, quarry time. Sunday-schoo at two
p. NJ. If only these services shall continue
to be well attended. they can probably be
kept up for some time to come. Singing
will doubtless be prominent feature of
them. All are cordially invited to them,
- An acquaintance tells us that Abial
Goodrich, now some siXty-tive years of age,
is living in Portage City, Wis. He has but
one child, IA young lady, who has been a
teacher in the public schools of that place.
He is said to be in good health, and, we
Judge, is prosperous. - A singing class,
to be taught by Professor f. r. Ober of
Waterbury, seems now almost assured. 1t
will be free to all who would like to Join it.
We hear Professor Oher spoken of as particu-
larly efficient in teaching beginners in music
Let everybody who can attend. -
The latest railroad rumor that reaches us is
that the Central Vermont Company may
not extend the road south through the Gulf,
but go across to Chelsea and down through
Tunbridge to Royalton. 1t is said 100000
can be had by the company to make this
change of route 1t has been looking as il
Brooktield, East Bethel and East Randolph
were to get a chance at the "persimmons y
with a very short pole" But they do not
want to reckon without their host. Let
them bear in mind that there is said to be
"a valley" between here and Chelsea that
is navigable," even if it has been looked
upon as an exalted " one heretofore
- a subject of common remark here is
the delightful fall weather OF the weeks
past. Hardly rainy day have we had in
perhaps two months. Work on the railroad
progresses so rapidly it would seem but
little time next season would be required tC
complete it. - In the last week there
have been two more slides on our railroad
but nothing serious. One man, we hear
was hurt enough to have to give IN work
for a time. - Quarterly meeting was
held at the Methodist church last Sabbath
Presiding Elder TruaX preaching. -
} One person united with the Congregational
church last Sabbath - A man of means
living elsewhere, but well acquainted will
. Willamstown affairs, said to us the othe
J day that if he was younger man he coul'
come in here and make money now. -
A en-looking business man from another
Vermont town, who was here last week
said that our bonded railroad debt, som'
5 five or six times the grand list wasn't any
I thing. He lived where it was thirteel
times the grand list for a similar purpose
1 we believe. 60 Mr.. Lucus Edison las
| week had quite severe attack, from get
5 ting chilled, that could hardly have faile,
= to give his family much anxiety. He i
again better. - A pleasant little stor.
3 was lately told us by a warm hearted Orang
. county father living elsewhere A few
1 years ago a little son needed to be sen
to Boston for surgical treatment Fo
e some reason the father could not go will
him, though friends were ready to NEE
r the lad on his arrival in Boston. Witt
p. a heavy heart the father took him to tn
1 railroad station. At the depot he met al
: entire stranger, whose face and name
G pleased him so much he ventured to asl
= him if he might commit his boy to his care
V A kindly response was given to the anXiou
= parent by this stranger, who proved to b
5 no other than Superintendent Hobart O
Il the Central Vermont railroad. Arriving a
/ a town in New Hampshire, Mr.. Hobart wa
> stopped in his journey by telegram call
G ing him elsewhere Before he left he CAV
the boy a bag of oranges and all neede
directions about the remainder of the triI
kind-hearted lady, the wife of prom
!, nent merchant in one of our busiest Wen
u mont towns, sitting near the lad, and VIII
u was on her way to Boston, hearing MI
= Hobarts directions went to him and ottere
.. to care for him the rest of the way. ArriN
;, ing in Boston the lads friends somehoN
1.